-There are children in the book.There is a horrible – just nasty – female friend.

-Priorities are put in place, which was
especially hard for people of that time period.

-Friends who are truly friends, and ones who are
NOT!

-Newport – just a beautiful place.

-Funny animals

-Mystery

-LOVE!

One of the passages that stood out
to me was, “You’ve been surrounded solely by like-minded individuals – and that
has not given you a proper perspective of life.”Hmmmm…..I think that could apply to
anyone.Do you know people who are
different than you are?

Friday, July 17, 2015

The Friends
of Jesus is a storybook mixed with a bible study.Kingsbury takes many of the people who knew
Jesus personally and tells their story.Now, she is reading into many of their thoughts and actions, but I do
think the road she takes is probably very accurate.

To be exact
6 Friends of Jesus are covered in this book.Simon would have never encountered the TRUTH
if he hadn’t had leprosy.He would have
probably continued on living his well-meaning judgmental life.Things Kingsbury adds to his story is how it
felt (and smelled) to have leprosy, how it felt to have his wife married to
another in less than a year, and how it felt to be rejected by people who held
him in high esteem before the leprosy.

Kingsbury
weaves the stories of 5 more of Jesus’s friends.

A GREAT
read!Well written – of course – duh –
it is Karen Kingsbury! Even the cover art is beautiful!

Thursday, July 16, 2015

I love
books!Well, I love most books!And I really really hate it when I don’t like
a book.I am picky about writing
style.I like lots of emotion and
imagery.I like to know exactly what the
character is thinking and feeling.

I was
excited to get the chance to read To Capture Her Heart.If we are being honest my excitement had
vanished by the end of the second chapter.I can’t really pin point why except that truly something about it didn’t
grab me and suck me in like many books.Like my above paragraph(s) the sentence structure didn’t vary much, and
that bothered me for some unknown reason.

Maybe, it
is me!I just can’t finish the book….and
I am really sorry!Try it!As I said, it could just be me!I do LOVE the cover art!

1.When Charlotte and Stone were facing a difficult
situation.“He never promised us a life
without hardship.In face, I seem to
recollect several places in Scripture where He promises that we will face such
things.But even in that, he vows to be
by out side through it all, to give us the strength to endure whatever comes.”This is a truth I think many choose not to
believe.No one wants to face hard
times, but…..

2.Charlotte is faithful to her old – slightly odd –
friends.

3.I wish one of the children would have just been
a kid – with no extraordinary talent.

About Me

I am a chicken! I am not a risk taker. I am trying to take baby steps towards becoming less "chickeny"! I am a wife of 1, mother of 4 ages 26-18. Jesus follower, homeschool mom, history teacher are all samples of titles I would put on myself. I love to laugh and learn. When reading I usually have a 5 chapter rule. If I am not hooked by the end of the 5th chapter, I move on to the next book. Fortunately, I never find myself with nothing to read!